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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XXII, 1625-29
Explorations By Early Navigators, Descriptions Of The
Islands And Their Peoples, Their History And Records Of
The Catholic Missions, As Related In Contemporaneous Books
And Manuscripts, Showing The Political, Economic, Commercial
And Religious Conditions Of Those Islands From Their
Earliest Relations With European Nations To The Close Of
The Nineteenth Century

Author: Various

Editor: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: July 15, 2005 [EBook #16297]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
close of the nineteenth century,

Volume XXII, 1625-29

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXII

Preface
Documents of 1625

Report of the Spanish Council of State
on the appointment of a governor for the
Philippines. Madrid, March 7.
Royal decree granting income to the Society
of Jesus. Felipe IV; Madrid, June 1.
Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe
IV. Miguel Garcia Serrano; July 25.
Royal festivities at Manila. Diego de Rueda
y Mendoza; Manila, August 1.
Letter to Felipe IV. Fernando de Silva;
Manila, August 4.

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